Food Chain Radio Show #1105 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Foods and Moods Guest: Dr. Frieda Birnbaum, Research Psychologist and Author, Life Begins at 60  Given how wired into the world we have become, every person and every cause every where is now free to

Food Chain Radio Show #1104 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Strawberries and Pesticides Guest: Professor of Soil Science Carol Shennan Assistant Specialist, Margherita Zavatta University of California, Santa Cruz They say in the old days strawberry farming was for gypsies. A farmer could grow the delicious strawberries for a

  Food Chain Radio Show #1103 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Fake Food and the Fake Meat of Silicon Valley Guests: San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writers, Tara Duggan and Jonathan Kauffman The geography of the Bay Area’s Silicon Valley is defined by its money and ideas. It’s

Food Chain Radio Show #1102 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Invasion of Invasive Species Guest: Heath Packard, Director of Communications Island Conservation It is now a small world in which everyone is free to go most anywhere. And when they do go, they often take with them species of

Food Chain Radio Show #1101 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Wolves and Chronic Wasting Disease Guest: Marc Cooke, President Wolves of the Rockies Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is spreading throughout the deer and elk population of the West. Chronic Wasting Disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Food Chain Radio Show #1099 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Food Fights and Culture Wars Guest: Tom Nealon, Owner of Pazzo Books & Author of Food Fights & Culture Wars What do food trends of the past tell us about trends of the future? As a

Food Chain Radio Show #1099 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Cheap Food Isn’t Guests: Professor Marion Nestle, author of Soda Politics, & Katy Keiffer, author of What’s the Matter with Meat Why does the U.S. have such cheap food? I once went looking for the reason

Food Chain Radio Show #1098 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Pesticides & The Future of Food Guests: Open Mic Audience Participation As host of the Food Chain Radio, I am like a big fat trout lying at the bottom of a deep pool as insects float

Food Chain Radio Show #1097 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Pesticides & The Right to Food Guest: Hilal Elver, Professor of International Law and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Chewing on two items of news. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its

Food Chain Radio Show #1096 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Bee Colony Collapse Protecting the Pollinators Guests: Madeleine Carnemark, Pollinator Program and Policy Coordinator at the Center for Food Safety; and University of California Student of Environmental Studies Olivia Duncaneen Food Chain Radio’s intern producer Olivia Duncan